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Germany: The light that failed A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London celebrates the work of the Bauhaus school, who believed that standardised buildings based on scientific principles could be beautiful and transform people's lives. Mark Hudson goes to Dessau, where it all began, to see what remains of the dream
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Germany: The light that failed A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London celebrates the work of the Bauhaus school, who believed that standardised buildings based on scientific principles could be beautiful and transform people's lives. Mark Hudson goes to Dessau, where it all began, to see what remains of the dream
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Germany: The light that failed A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London celebrates the work of the Bauhaus school, who believed that standardised buildings based on scientific principles could be beautiful and transform people's lives. Mark Hudson goes to Dessau, where it all began, to see what remains of the dream
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The sweeping glass walls - the first of their kind, ancestors of the steel and glass towers of Chicago, Manhattan and London - glowed in the evening light. There, lurking amid Dessau's still suburban avenues, was one of the 20th century's classic utopias, where Walter Gropius aspired to fuse architecture, sculpture and painting into `a crystal symbol of a new faith that is to come'. The Nazis shut the Bauhaus in 1933. After decades of suppression, bombing and neglect, would there would be much left to see? But there I was, amid rows of fresh-faced East German youth, listening to a short, bearded architect, who was holding forth with a masterful fluency, not one word of which I could understand. It was as though, in the parallel reality of the GDR, the Bauhaus had just kept on going as Dessau's local tech. In fact, the students belong to the local university, which still rents half the building. The war-shattered Bauhaus accommodated various rag-tag institutions, including a cottage hospital and a driving school before restoration in the 1970s. It only returned to the status of educational institution last autumn, with a small intake of international postgraduates. But the standing of the Bauhaus is higher than ever. Modernism - rebranded for our own times as `minimalism' - is in. Gropius's building, one of the key works of the whole movement, is now a Unesco World Heritage site.
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